Dying Light (Logan McRae, Book 2)

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McGregor soldiers on, despite seeing his future devastated and several horrors from his past confronted. Not to mention still losing body parts to biters. Flood, Alison (1 June 2009). "Theakstons rounds up 14 suspects on crime novel award shortlist | Books". The Guardian . Retrieved 18 April 2012. The story starts off with the dead body of Rosie Williams in the red light district of Aberdeen, and that murder will set in motion a lot of other lethal activities that will be connected somehow. Dying Light by Stuart MacBride is set in Aberdeen, Scotland. It is book two in the Logan MacBride series. Prostitutes are being found murdered. Not just murdered, but battered to death. An arsonist is sadistically sealing the exits of the dwellings he torches before setting them alight. He gets his thrills hearing his victims scream. DS Logan McRae has been assigned to DI Steel’s team – the Screw-Up Squad – thanks to the way his last case ended. Steel, whose name is apropos, is a chain-smoking, no-nonsense tough broad who begins her morning team meetings by leading with a cheer: “We are not at home to Mr. F**k –Up.” Every member is expected to say it, with gusto. Callum is in the unit because his pregnant girlfriend Elaine compromised a crime scene that allowed Big Johnny Simpson to go free. He takes the blame, doing this for love and so Elaine would not be fired and miss out on maternity benefits. He has to put up with non stop condemnations and insinuations that he is corrupt and incompetent from every corner and is being investigated by Professional Standards. It begins with Callum unexpectedly nabbing the slippery Ainsley Dugdale and arresting him with much furore. A mother and her children have a history of being domestically abused, Callum just has to do something about this. An ancient mummy turns up at a rubbish tip, only for another to turn up in a car boot. This leads the police to three missing men and the realisation they have a serial killer on their hands. At the age of 5, the boy Callum encountered a paedophile, and his parents and brother, Alastair, disappeared resulting in Callum entering the care system. He has never got over his traumatising past, and at long last there are developments that might tell him what exactly happened. His domestic bliss with Elaine is destined to blow up in his face as she reveals her true manipulative side. All the multiple threads slowly connect but not before a shed load of misery, numerous injuries and assaults, and close calls with death for our hero and the misfit team

Growing tired of it, he left his job to try his hand at becoming an actor. From there, Stuart gave up acting when he saw he was going nowhere in the field. He went on to become an IT sector for a big IT global company. It was in his spare time he did what he truly loved – writing. Writing Career Prostitute Rosie Williams had been beaten, viciously, to death. Across town an old squat with all exits screwed shut, from the outside, burned down – incinerating the six people inside. DI Insch along with DS McRae and DI Steel had their work cut out. There were maniacs on the loose and it seemed the police were chasing their tails.Callum and his colleagues are assigned the case of what looks to be a prank. A set of mummified remains has been found and everyone assumes someone has stolen them from a museum. What starts out as a seemingly innocuous case, however, turns out to be much more as more mummified remains - and some much fresher remains - are discovered. The Misfit Mob finds themselves investigating a serial killer. Meet Mother's Misfit Mob - a detective unit of Police Scotland, the 'mob' is made up of coppers who for various reasons have been shunted here in disgrace, or if the 'powers that be' don't know what else to do with them.

Stephenson, Hannah (22 April 2017). "The dark and light world of Stuart MacBride | Press and Journal". Press and Journal . Retrieved 9 November 2018. But then Callum uncovers links between his ancient corpse and three missing young men, and life starts to get a lot more interesting. O Division’s Major Investigation Teams already have more cases than they can cope with, so, against everyone’s better judgement, the Misfit Mob are just going to have to manage this one on their own. There are authors in the world that can send you into their own made up world with just a few words. The opening sentences in their books can have you wandering with them, hanging on their every word in a matter of minutes. While DS Logan McRae is trying very hard to solve cases and thus also his own position, DI Steel will try to take the credit in an attempt to improve her own situation within the police-system, and so DI Steel will thwart him in a lot of ways until even she will have to concede that DS McRae has the right in most cases, resulting in the discovery of some thugs from Edinburgh as the main perpetrators behind some cruel and lethal activities, while in other cases some interesting culprits will turn up.Others have mentioned that the book is too long. I tend to agree. I think we’d have gotten the same story with one or two fewer bodies. However, the vernacular repartee is fantastic. Even without knowing all the colloquialisms, it makes for entertaining reading. I even laughed out loud a few times. I am a fan of Stuart MacBride, and usually scarf up his books with delight, but with this one it has to be said that the constant trouble with his superiors is taking too much time away from the plot. It is as if in his search for realism, MacBride has decided that if a third of the book isn't devoted to the other police who have it out for him, then there isn't any point to writing the book. In addition to the case is the drama in Callum’s life. Besides the accusations of bribery, he has some lasting baggage from his childhood. After an outing with his family when he was five, Callum was approached by a pedophile in a public bathroom. The creep ran off after being interrupted when some men walk into the bathroom. When Callum gets up the nerve to leave the bathroom, he finds the family car empty - his parents and brother are nowhere to be seen. They are never found and Callum ends up in the system. While he is off investigating his mummy case, there are astounding developments in his case. Stuart MacBride interview". Alibi. Archived from the original on 17 August 2016 . Retrieved 9 July 2016.

How? How does writing rubbish about the fires being a sexual thing help us catch the bastard doing it? What am I supposed to do with that? Put an ad in the personal columns? 'Looking for white, male GSOH, mid twenties -- into setting fire to people's houses, with them inside, and masturbating while they burn -- for long-term commitment at Her Majesty's pleasure. Genuine psychos only: no time wasters.' Can really see that working." - DI Insch

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Stuart MacBride is best known for his Logan McRae crime series, but this is a stand-alone novel, featuring DC Callum MacGregor , who has been sent to Mother’s ‘Misfit Mob’ in Oldcastle, after suggestions that he compromised a crime scene. In fact, Callum was covering up for his pregnant girlfriend, Eileen, but that does not help the fact that his colleagues are all looking at him with suspicion and he is the butt of his new sergeant’s, Andy McAdams, jokes. The misfit mob are full of characters – from ‘Mother’ herself, to McAdams, who has terminal cancer and constantly makes up bad poetry for every occasion, the miserable John Watt, amputee Dotty, touchy Franklin and Callum himself.

Stuart has won a few awards for his novels. The awards he has won are for the Logan McRae crime/sci-fi series he has written. While only winning three awards, these are seen as major awards and is the reason he has done very well in his writing career. Stuart was born in February of 1969. He was born in the city of Dumbarton, which is close to Glasgow in the country of Scotland. Stuart and his parents moved to Aberdeen when he was only two years of age, where he was raised in his formative and adolescent years.Callum MacGregor is the main character, and the author deftly hints at past troubles without fully describing what has transpired. One can’t help but continue to read and hope for an explanation, which Mr. MacBride offers naturally in drips and dribbles. MacGregor is the lowest member of the Misfit Mob, police who have been “exiled” to a separate division because of past conduct. The author allows us to meet and interact with all of them, through MacGregor, and their daily duties are a picture of multiple duties all threshed and jumbled together. MacGregor has his personal demons he must sort out while he and his coworkers struggle to solve the cases that come their way. This is a standalone darkly comic novel from the prolific author Stuart MacBride ...." Paromjit, GR reviewer. You think you’re having a bad day? DC Callum McGregor is having a bad life. After being raised in care, he became a cop to help people like himself. But the trajectory of his career took a nose dive after covering for his pregnant girlfriend when she screwed up a crime scene. Now he works in the unit of last resort with a motley crew who have all been “specially selected” for various reasons.